Events from the year 1789 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Catherine II
Events Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) June 13 - Battle of Porrassalmi July 26 - Battle of Öland (1789) August 24 - Battle of Svensksund (1789) September 30 - Battle of Elgsö Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) August 1 - Battle of Focșani September 22 - Battle of Rymnik Kirov Plant (factory) established Mykolaiv (city) founded Moscow Gostiny Dvor shopping mall rebuilt St. Vladimir's Cathedral (St. Petersburg) Tauride Palace built
Births
Thaddeus Bulgarin - writer and publisher Prince Constantine of Imereti (1789–1844) - Georgian prince, general in Russian service Johann Cornies - Prussian Mennonite settler and agricultural reformer Pavel Gagarin - statesman Fedor Mirkovich - general Dmitri Osten-Sacken - Baltic German/Russian general Maria Szymanowska - Polish composer and pianist who settled in St. Petersburg Mikhail Tikhanov - artist Nikolay Turgenev - economist and political theorist
Deaths
Nikita Akinfiyevich Demidov, industrialist, landowner, scientist Semyon Desnitsky, legal scholar
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